CB Fry

Because we could have got to Wembley, maybe even twice. And have got into Europe. You do realise we ain't winning the league anytime soon, don't you?

They had one of those easy draws against Man United at Old Trafford on their way to Wembley. I can see our current management bottling that tie the minute our ball came out of the draw.

Except the "tone of the posts" suggested nothing of the sort. Just fiction in your head. Plenty on here, me included, have never thought we were in any danger of winning the FA Cup and I have said that many times here, as have others. But we could have made a better fist of our single biggest game of the season than we did. We self destructed unnecessarily.

No, they haven't.

Except, of course, no one has said anything remotely like this. But other than that, astonishingly insightful satire from you. Jolly well done.

Joe Royle is the top, top manager we need. A truly stellar record.

On the plane.

Thoroughly enjoyed their recent 3 - part documentary on seventies prog legend Brian Pern.

People know my views on the cup thing but I think Sheffield Utd is about Cloughie sorting out an under performing squad. The cup run is not a cause, it's an effect. Sunderland I'd say the same thing. Cup runs are neither detrimental or beneficial to league form: Wigan went down because they were a poor, weak squad. Not because they won the cup.

Nani and Young likely to be cleared out, and it's just a hunch based on Moyes wanting players he thinks he can actually manage. Not sure they desperately needed Fellani last summer but he chucked some serious coin at getting him in. What Man U mainly need is a different manager.

For some reason Lallana to Manchester United seems plausible to me. I don't think Adam has any great desire to move, but it just seems like the kind of slightly odd panic buy that Moyes would do while Chelsea and Man City are out buying the biggest megastars from the WC. If United lob 25 mil at us we probably would sell. Which, weirdly, might see us keep Shaw one more season...or I might just be mental.

Brilliant. Disappointing lack of man - hug selfie, though. Come on, it's the feel good story of the year. My only question is has Pap met Dune before to know that BS isn't him?

Can't open the file, but if it is the movie "Once in a lifetime" from about six/seven years ago then yeah, it's a brilliant film and well worth a watch.

So, nothing like that then.

Red and white version of that current Philly shirt would be quality. Steve Moran-tastic

Don't cry luvvie. You can't help being pitifully wrong about everything. You're just plain dumb. You can probably get help. All the best with it.

If you want to ever remind me about how wrong I am about our catchment area and just how many fans we'll be turning away this season, let me know. It gets boring reminding you about how spectacularly wrong you are about pretty much everything. Chin up, though, sweetheart.

It's a little bit rich you talking about people "never responding to posts" when I've been waiting several days to explain how Saints have "broken glass ceilings and turned over "preconceptions" and "established views" by the earth shattering achievement of spending thirty million quid to get to ninth in the league. Especially as only a day or so later you were piping up "what's so great about finishing eighth". So ninth is breaking down "established views" and "glass ceilings" but eighth "isn't great"? Brilliant. That's the problem with you Franko. Just words on words on words saying everything and absolutely nothing. Contradicting yourself through constant double backing on every single thought you have. Just a torrent of brain sludge signifying absolutely eff all. So carry on "cracking up". The rest of us patiently await your next 700 word round the houses aimless ramble with all the instances of "the" typed wrong.

Really can't see Pochettino being a serious candidate for Inter Milan (unless Cortese ends up there). He's not done enough to warrant it. Might as well give the Inter job to Alan Pardew, who has been far more successful. And is mental enough to fit right in on an Italian touchline.

I believe "key, key, key" outranks "top, top" in the player quality scale.

Too true. Mid table teams run out of steam at this point in the season, regardless of whether or not they are in the cup or not. Swansea (cup winners) and West Brom (nothing in the cups) both has similarly drab and lifeless ends to the season last year, yet still managed to finish 8th/9th as we will. Not being in the cup is not the match-winning wonder drug some on here seemed to think it was a couple of weeks ago. Basically we should have bloody tried at Sunderland. As most of us know. We'll finish ninth or eighth whatever from here. We've got the wins in us to do it. Let's just get some of these boys to Brazil.

I think it is jolly sweet that you and Les hold up these "concepts" about probability and possibility like you've just invented the water - powered motor car. Probability, pragmatism, possibility, realism, aspiration. How you manage to wring so much vacuous verbiage about nothing is truly spectacular. So my old chum, stop slapping yourself on the back that I don't understand clever old you. Seriously, you say eff all of any value whatsoever. Understand that.

What red mist? Just seeing what you want to see. Hilarious lottery gag, like, just so clever of you. We were never going to become a Champions League club. If you think predicting that obvious outcome is as complex as predicting the flamin' lottery then I am sorry that you are actually that dim. To you last point, review what "situation" on what terms? What will be, will be, and I'll support us anyway. I won't be pining for some Italian in a suit, whatever happens. And being that you take huge joy from mocking those who want us to win stuff and progress into European football I struggle to conceive what you want from your club anyway.

My primary aim on here is to get chuckles. Not from everyone - 90% of this forum are utter helmets - but from some. There is a pitchfork mob of the great and the good gathering against me on another thread at the moment. I think they might finally defeat me, hastening my retirement from the forum. If Ottery turns up with his usual barrage of smilies, I think that might be the end.

People can hope what they like. But it hasn't happened and it was never going to. I'm not angry about people's hopes but I am not going to have tedious lectures about probable/possible/etc etc when it boils down to far simpler themes. People swallowed the pie in the sky stuff from our tiny Italian wizard of Oz, greedily maneuvering for more of the dead man's cash. Some didn't. And those that didn't were spot on. You lot can keep rabbiting on about probably/possible horses hit till the cows come home. Fill your boots. Boo hoo. Our chief executive has gone and all our dreams are over. Boo hoo.